The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (107 page)

Cotton trade

credit, slavery and,
90–94
,
108

in New Orleans,
76–77
,
78 (photo)
,
81
,
82–83
,
87

See also
Slave trade

Creative destruction, and capitalism,
86
,
184

Credit,
90–94
,
100
,
108
,
229–233
,
244–245
,
245–248
,
249
,
254
,
272–273

Crittenden plan,
391–392
,
393

Cuba,
53–54
,
297–298
,
354–358
,
358 (photo)
,
373–374

Culture, African-American,
416
,
417

Cushing, Caleb,
370
,
388

Daniel, Peter,
377
,
378

Davenport, Carey,
190

Davis, Jefferson,
339
,
356
,
366
,
370
,
387
,
388
,
392
,
393
,
404
,
406

Declaration of Independence,
6

Delegates, free-state and slave-state,
157

Democracy, white-males-only,
252

Democrats, northern, and abolitionists’ attempts to silence,
327

Deposit Act of 1836,
270

Deslondes, Charles,
58
,
62
,
63

Destrehan slave labor camp,
60
,
61
,
62
,
109

Devereux, Adaline,
285

Devereux, John,
284–285
,
287–288
,
304–307

Devereux, Julien,
284–285
,
287–288
,
304
,
305
,
307

Dickinson, Richard,
344
,
359

Diffusion of slavery,
30
,
34–35
,
48
,
153

Douglas, Stephen,
301
,
302
,
340
,
367
,
369–372
,
375
,
376
,
388–389

Kansas-Nebraska Act and,
378
,
379

Lecompton constitution and,
381

Lincoln-Douglas debates,
381–383

Douglass, Frederick,
179
,
184
,
197
,
334
,
346
,
401

Harpers Ferry raid and,
384

Douglass, James,
402–403
,
404

Dred Scott v. Sanford
,
376–379
,
380

Drug foods,
79

Duncan, Stephen,
232
,
248
,
256
,
276
,
353
,
394

Economic collapse of 2008,
248
,
270

Edwards, Bryan,
236
,
237 (photo)

Election of 1860,
388–393

Elections,
232

white male equality and,
222–224

Ellsworth, Oliver,
10
,
11

Emancipated people, in Boston,
309–315

Emancipation,
399
,
400–402
,
406

British Empire,
297–298

Haiti,
44–49

Northern US,
4
,
7
,
14
]

Emancipation Proclamation,
400–402
,
406

Emerson, Eliza,
368–369
,
376
,
378

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
386

Enslaved men

as husbands and fathers,
280–284

manhood and,
219
,
262
,
281–282

resistance, honor, manhood and,
281–282

Enslaved people

altruism/sharing among,
150–152

clothing of,
114
,
122

conflict among,
149–150

corn-shucking competitions and,
158–160
,
161 (photo)

evangelical Protestantism/God and,
198–207

food provided for,
118

health/disease and,
114
,
122

infant death rates and,
122
,
122 (table)
,
123 (table)

innovation of,
138
,
140
,
142
,
163

language of,
148
,
150

mean heights of adults and,
182
,
183 (table)

number imported to/sold in New Orleans and,
76
,
77 (table)
,
102
,
103 (table)

number transferred from southeastern to southwestern states and,
185

political agenda of,
416–417

population of,
31
,
56
,
246 (table)
,
266
,
288
,
322
,
355
,
360–361

possessions of,
152–153

solidarity of,
172

songs/music/dancing and,
146–147
,
160–168
,
165 (photo)

as the Undead,
145–147
,
147–148

wages and,
129–130

wealth in the U.S. and,
245
,
246 (table)

See also
African Americans

Enslaved women

as “fancy girls,”
240–241
,
242–244

as laborers,
134
,
138–139

as mothers,
105–106
,
183
,
359
,
361–363

and pleasures of resistance,
159
,
164

and prostitution, forced,
240

rape of,
25
,
235
,
236–237

sexual exploitation of/sexual assault on,
215–217
,
233–244
,
305
,
359
(
see also
Sexual desire, slave trade, and financial risk
)

as spiritual/magical practitioners,
149–150
,
204–205
,
294–295

Entrepreneurs,
85–90
,
92
,
175

creative destruction and,
86

and future slave trading, creation of markets for,
107–108

See also
Professional slave trade/traders

European empires,
7
,
42–43
,
44
,
45
,
50
,
56
,
59
,
68
,
157
,
254
,
255
,
399

European immigration, to the North,
324

Evangelical Protestantism/God,
198–207

Expansion of slavery

false claims about,
29–30